If you’ve just created your home based business online, no doubt you’re looking for ways to drive traffic to your website. There are many different techniques available to attract targeted visitors to your site with one very effective tactic being giving free stuff or freebies to your guests. You can select from a wide array of free tools online related to your website topic or theme to give to your potential customers or you can create your own gift.
One strategy which can draw targeted traffic to your site on a regular basis is giving away a free Internet marketing course via your autoresponder. You can create your own course by writing a series of articles related to a particular marketing technique such as driving traffic to your website.
You can then upload these editorials to your email response system and when someone subscribes to your site you can follow up with them at regular intervals with a different article from your course. Here are 7 other ways to increase your targeted traffic and eventually increase your sales and profits:
1. As we all know from our own experience people love to get freebies. By offering a free course from your autoresponder related to your product people will flock to your website to get the free information.
2. Provide your course as a free bonus when people purchase your product. This may be just the incentive they need to become a paying customer. People also like to believe they’re getting a bargain and by receiving two items for the price of one they may feel as though it’s too good a deal to pass up.
3. Make your course available to other home business owners and Internet marketers online to give away from their website. This is a great way to create back links to your home page because with your link included in your signature file people may want to check out your other articles by visiting your website.
4. By creating your own Internet marketing course people will begin to view you as an expert in your chosen field or topic of interest. This may help give them the confidence and trust they need in both you, as an Internet marketer, and your product to speed up their decision and to persuade them to become paying clients.
5. The more copies of your course that are distributed around the Internet for people to enjoy the more traffic you’ll receive via word-of-mouth advertising. When your visitors get value from your product they may tell their friends and family about your website and they will visit and receive the same benefits from taking advantage of your free offer. Before you know it you will receive an endless stream of new visitors to your home page.
6. Look around for giveaway opportunities online which are events sponsored by Internet marketers whereby you can make your course available for their visitors free of charge while in return you receive back links to your website from your signature file. You can also build your email list by asking your guests to sign up to your squeeze page or opt-in page in order to gain access to your information.
7. Approach other Internet marketers and home business owners on the web and propose cross promotion arrangements whereby you giveaway one of their products from your home page and they reciprocate by giving your course to their customers and their potential clients. This should dramatically increase your traffic by directing some of their guests and customers to your website and vise versa.
By creating a course pertaining to your home business product and giving it away you can explode your traffic and sales and help establish your enterprise as a force to be reckoned with online.